Comments

Comment by Titanium

The Wolfshead Helm can be a very powerful item when used right as a feral druid. And, when used in conjunction with the furor talent, can become even more useful. Although this item only requires level 40, many good feral druids keep it around into the 50's and even to 60.

When used with the Furor talent, this gives the user 60 energy upon shapeshift to catform or 15 rage in bearform. This gives a druid the opportunity to bash a target, shapshift to cat form and shred TWICE instead of just a single time. Furthermore, it gives the opportunity in bear form to both feral charge and then bash the target. Although this item is somewhat situational and with poor stats for feral standards, it can be one of the most useful helms in your inventory.

Comment by alen3000

I hate that they used the same gfx for that TBC helmet. It used to be druids look cool only :P

Comment by Liff

Has anyone else had this award More than 5 rage/20 energy, without Furor?

I have 0/0 Furor, and yet I generally get 7 or 10 rage when shifting to bear. 7 occurs more often, but sometimes I can shift to bear and demo roar immediately afterwards.. In the middle of town, with nothing hitting me.

If I manage to get 10 out of it, it usually starts off with 5, then bumps up to 10 a second later.

With cat, it awards 20 energy, and then the next energy tick is much faster than normal. So by the time the global cooldown from shifting is up, I have 40 energy.

In short, I'm loving this helm. :)

Comment by mfox748

i sold one for 20 gold =]]

Comment by marcoacs

As a leatherworker with 230 skill, i just went to the Tribal LW trainer and learned it.Since it doesn't require the specialty to use, I suggest all of you to go learn it when you reach the lvl required, if you are a Druid.

Comment by Winabago

DEfinatly a hunter helm :P

Comment by Jarrho

With the current way that Furor works, this helm is now, like almost all craftable blues, fairly to totally useless. Blizz should really look into making these midlevel craftables worth putting on your character. As it is, I learn to craft it about the same time as I scratch my head and wonder who in their mind would make one.

Comment by hroskar

You're right that it's useless for any druid with 5/5 Furor, at least the cat form portion of it.

However note that this is a level 40 item and many feral druids of that level will not yet have any points in Furor because it's probably more worthwhile to have all their 31+ points invested in the feral tree, for talents such as Heart of the Wild and Leader of the Pack.

Comment by Samboda

Pre 3.1

109 Armor+10 SpiritClasses: DruidRequires Level 40Equip: When shapeshifting into Cat form the Druid gains 20 energy, when shapeshifting into Bear form the Druid gains 5 rage.

3.1 Update

109 Armor+10 AgilityClasses: DruidRequires Level 40Equip: When shapeshifting into Cat form the Druid gains 20 energy, when shapeshifting into Bear form the Druid gains 5 rage.

Comment by persianprince90

It is still +spirit , it hasnt changed

Comment by kolter45

Confirmed they still have +10 spirit. It hasn't changed yet. When this helm gets changed into +10 agility; I'd imagine its value would increase. Excellent Druid head piece for the mats. I had one made today. It goes for about 40/50g on my AH, Horde side.

Comment by boontk

still technically best in slot for feral dps at 80. powershifting adds a lot of complexity to fights though so results may vary.

Comment by Wowaconia

But the Thick Wolfhide was such a rare skinning drop that it was hard to obtain this item, so the mats where changed at patch 3.10.

Comment by pedter

Has anyone else considered this for level 80? I'm not talking actually *using* it - just putting it on, shifting, then putting your real helm on, then engaging. Yes, its a bit of work, but you can make a macro to do it. You'd only be able to use it before pulling, of course.

The "!" is there to powershift - if you're already in the form, it'll recast, breaking roots/slows/etc. Its like rebuffing a buff - if you've still got 17 minutes on Arcane Intellect and you recast it, it resets to 30 minutes. Normally you have to remove then recast forms - like right-clicking the buff then casting it. Too slow in PvP ;)

Other thoughts: if you had the Wolfshead Helm on for some reason and had this macro with /equipslot twice, you'd still end up with this helm on. Bad. Would this run while: a) you have it on? the first line won't work, as its already equipped, but will it continue? and b) if you're in combat, will it just say "cannot change gear in combat" and powershift you?

Comment by shankfoo

This no longer appears to work properly...

I have 5/5 Furor, when i shift into bear form, i consistently gain only 10 rage. In my other spec with 0/0 Furor, it's zero rage.The same applies to Cat Form, the item does not grant any energy on shifting.

Comment by styopa

I wonder if it has to do with bear form (as in the text) vs DIRE bear form.I'm not getting the rage on transform either.

Unfortunately, even with "show all spell levels" I *can't* shift to simple bear form to test.

Comment by Boarwood

I think that with the addition of Worgen to the game, there also needs to be a to balance things out.

Comment by HandsomeJack

This item seriously needs a "brother" for high levels. The Equip proc is too sexy for me to just ignore this item as just another relic of the past. Sure Embrace of the Lycan is pretty much the item right now, but that doesn't mean this item can't be scaled up.